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Self-Help
- Author
- Lorrie Moore
- Narrator
- Jane Oppenheimer
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 28 May 2019
- Run Time
- 5 hours 8 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Short stories
What to expect
In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit.
Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
Critics Review
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“Trenchant, funny tales…of the chronically out-of-sync relations between American men and women.”
People
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“Fine, funny, and very moving pictures of contemporary life… [from] a writer of enormous talent.”
New York Times
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“Sharp, flicking, on-target…The work of a sorcerer’s apprentice. Moore casts a cruel, mischievous spell.”
Vanity Fair
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“A funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories.”
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“Moore is so good at trapping each moment in perfect, precise detail, so masterful at cynicism and wryness that her moments of poignancy and sweetness catch us completely off guard.”
San Francisco Chronicle
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“[A] contemplative, wryly humorous narration…Oppenheimer deftly endows the protagonists’ voices with more than a touch of dry humor. Her insightful narration…employs varied tones to differentiate multiple characters, adding nuance and making the interactions sound realistic. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Details
- Author
- Lorrie Moore
- Narrator
- Jane Oppenheimer
- Duration
- 5 hours 8 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 May 2019
- ISBN
- 9781982632137
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Short stories
Synopsis
In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit.Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
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